Benchling vs. Flokzu Cloud BPM

Benchling is especially well suited to groups or contexts where there are many users who do not have a coding background but need a seamless and structured approach to data. Benchling is particularly useful in cases where there are data flows from instruments and other devices where the data can be deposited in an automated fashion. It is likely less appropriate or useful to users who are just looking for a general data warehouse solution.

Incentivized

Easy to track status of tasks. Great to use collaborate between remote teams. Useful for follow up and managing deadlines, with alarms functionality. Detailed and clear information in standard or customized reports.

• Excellent easy to use and beautiful UI
• Great customer support and training
• Has no code ways of retrieving and depositing data

Incentivized

• Easy of use, for a geographically distributed team.
• Agility. We can model, deploy and adjust (modify) business process by ourselves, in minutes.
• Flexibility, to add new processes (what we do all the time).
• Great support from the Flokzu team, every-time we needed it.

• Some of the integrations can be a bit spotty so it depends on what kind of data source you are integrating
• Sometimes new users are not always aware of all the various functionality that Benchling has - can do better to provide more user awareness of more complex features

Incentivized

• We don't have major issues with Flokzu.

Flokzu is very easy to use without having any knowledge of programming

Nice people both on chat and e-mail, always willing to help us.

Benchling was much more of a full stack solution and provide much more features that were relevant to the group. Airtable was more of a generic way to manage large amounts of data, but the complexity was still high for the types of data that would be need to be managed and there would need to be some workarounds. Overall Benchling was selected since it also had an electronic lab notebook feature which was very useful to associates in addition to its data workflows.

Incentivized

• It had a positive ROI in terms of reducing the amount of time spent on data movement and curation by associates
• It had a positive ROI in terms of increasing the number of insights from structured data
• It reduced the number of data entry and analysis errors by associates which led to a positive ROI in terms of efficiency and reducing time wasted by tracking down errors in data

Incentivized

• It really helped to coordinate our distributed sales team.
• Flokzu also helped to streamline administrative tasks, like invoicing and payment tracking from other countries.